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Superpowered initiative influence9/28/2023 ![]() Pakistan and Iran are not the only countries that may face a refugee crisis, however so too may EU member states, as they remain the ultimate intended destination for most refugees leaving Afghanistan. It is not clear whether the Taliban were invited. 10, the Chinese press downplayed the prospects of a positive outcome because China and Pakistan were not involved according to Chinese analysts, India aimed to “use the event to show its influence in regional affairs.” While China skipped the meeting “ due to scheduling issues,” according to the Foreign Ministry, representatives from Iran, Russia, and the Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan all attended. When India hosted a summit on Afghanistan on Nov. The Chinese attitude toward this situation can be gleaned from a piece published in the Chinese Communist Party outlet Global Times, which suggests that the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is part of the broader superpower dynamic. The only people who it might, if only reluctantly, are the Uyghurs who escaped from Xinjiang Province and then enjoyed American protection in Afghanistan. The difficult economic situation puts Iran under intense pressure and it needs every possible source of external support.Ĭhina, which shares a very short border with Afghanistan, has not allowed in any refugees from Afghanistan. According to The Tehran Times, the country is already home to more than 3 million Afghans, including “some 780,000 Afghan refugees, over 2 million undocumented Afghans, and another 600,000 Afghan passport-holders with Iranian visas.” These high numbers and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - especially as new concerns arise over the Omicron variant - are taking a toll on the country. Suffering from dire economic conditions and hit hard by the impact of sanctions, the Iranian government needs to find a way to handle this new influx. ![]() ![]() Iran also shares a long border with Afghanistan and like Pakistan, it too is seeing an influx of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban. The Pakistani government has made plans for the arrival of as many as 700,000 new refugees from Afghanistan. More Afghans are now crossing the border, spending all their resources to escape the Taliban regime. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) documented more than 1.4 million registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and there are likely hundreds of thousands more who are undocumented. As of the end of September 2021, the U.N. Pakistan, which supported the Taliban early on and shares the longest border with Afghanistan, has been dealing with the challenges of its instability for a long time, but these have worsened markedly since the American withdrawal. Further efforts must be made to address the growing economic and humanitarian crisis, especially before the onset of winter, although the nature and scope of these efforts are likely to be shaped by the broader competition between Washington and Beijing. Neighboring countries Iran, Pakistan, and China, along with other regional states and the U.S., now all face a dilemma as to how to stabilize the rapidly deteriorating internal situation. Since the hasty American withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, refugees have flowed out of the country and its domestic problems have grown increasingly dire due to the lack of effective governance and much-needed funding.
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